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d e s i g n IN F L U EN C E
co n t e n t s
2 0 0 7 C A LEND A R
March 3
Design Guild Award Dinner
Honoring Ann Goodnight
The Umstead Hotel, Cary
April 23
Craig Dykers, Principal Architect, Snøhetta
3712 Bostian Hall, 6 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the College of Design and NCSU Libraries
March 4 - 24
Exhibition: Architecture Teaching Fellows
April 26 (rain date April 27)
2007 Collection: Art to Wear fashion show
The Court of North Carolina
NC State Campus, 8 p.m.
March 23
Interview Days
March 23
Karsten Heuer “Being Caribou”
Witherspoon Cinema, NC State Campus, 6 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the College of Design, NCSU Libraries
and the College of Veterinary Medicine
March 24
Urban Sustainability Conference
Sheraton Capital, downtown Raleigh
March 25 - April 13
Exhibition: Landscape Architecture
Alumni/Faculty Show
March 30
Interview Days
April 9
Architecture Lecture: Julie Eizenberg
April 12
Alumni and Friends Gathering
New York, NY
Arrangements TBA
April 14 - May 6
Graphic Design Senior Show
April 16
Architecture Lecture: Bill Valentine
DEAN’S MESSAGE
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Recognitions
May 3
Alumni and Friends Gathering in conjunction with
AIA National Convention
6 p.m., Marriott River Center Hotel
San Antonio, Texas
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May 7 - May 12
Exhibition: Graduation Show
May 12
Spring Commencement
June 10 - 16
Design Camp/Overnight 1
June 25 - 29
Design Camp/Day
July 8 - 14
Design Camp/Overnight 2
August (TBA)
Dedication of the newly renovated Robert Burns
Auditorium and Aaron S. Allred Entrance Gallery
in Kamphoefner Hall
October 7
ARE Prep Course: Graphics Divisions
www.design.ncsu.edu/cont-ed
Design Guild Dinner
Distinguished Alumnus
features
May 3
Alumni and Friends Gathering in conjunction with
ASLA NC Conference
ColeJenst & Stone, Charlotte, N.C.
May 13 - Sept 1
Summer Exhibition
A Breath of Fresh Air
All architecture lectures – Due to the renovation
of Burns Auditorium in Kamphoefner Hall, the School
of Architecture’s lecture series events will be held in
Bostian Hall Auditorium, room 3712.
www.design.ncsu.edu/bostianmap.html
First in Sustainable Design Competition
Park Scholarships Bring Top Students to College of Design
HGTV Dream Home – NC State Edition
Cotton Steers Folbot to Success
Gene Bressler Aims to Make Urban Development Better in N.C.
Design Studio Connects Alumni and Triangle Universities
Graphic Design: An Expanded View
Achieve! The Campaign Reaches Milestone
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Commencement Address
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College News
EXHIBITIONS are featured in the Brooks Hall Gallery.
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OUR THANKS College of Design lectures and
exhibitions are sponsored in part by Design Guild
Dean’s Circle and Benefactor members.
For more details, go to www.design.ncsu.edu/events.
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Marvin J. Malecha, FAIA
dean
Carla Abramczyk
director of development
Jean Marie Livaudais
director of professional relations
Pam Welch
development assistant
Sherry O’Neal
editor; director of communications
Craig McDuffie (BEDV 1983)
designer
COVER
On the cover, a close-up view of model from
winning NC State student team. See story on
page 6.
A breath of
fresh air
by Marvin J. Malecha, FAIA, Dean
There was a time when meadow, grove and stream
The earth and every common sight,
To me did seem
Appareled in celestial light,
The glory and the freshness of a dream
—William Wordsworth, Ode. Intimations of Immortality
D
esign thought is the most powerful
enabling tool in a time of profound change.
It represents a problem solution and
opportunity-seeking process that fosters
the conditions for creativity, sparking new
thought. It is a survival mechanism. Design
thinking is the means by which the most
difficult challenges may be addressed. It
begins by associating freethinking with
the beginner’s mind and realizes results
by employing tactics associated with
experience.
There is a temptation to recall the past
“appareled in celestial light,” obscuring the
difficulties, romanticizing experiences and
constructing memories of times past.
DESIGN INFLUENCE / SPRING 2007
Photo of freshman student art by Will Temple
dean’s message
The reality of the past is a dynamic mix of
circumstances and personalities. Conflict
and deferral are never far from the creative
spirit. Abraham Lincoln’s words, “The
dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to
the stormy present” perfectly describe our
time. We are embarked on a transformation
that is unlike any other in our memory
and certainly remarkable in history for the
complexity of the human and environmental
issues we must confront.
This is a time of profound change. New roles
are evolving for designers in government and
in society. New forms of ownership and team
organization guide the practice even as we
must navigate an increasingly legal and
litigious environment while also mastering
the pixel and an array of new materials
and methods. Those entering the design
professions face an uncertain future driven
by forces as dynamic as any in history. It is
a time when the gap between education and
practice is growing, even as the education
experience has never been richer and the
need to develop the talent pool never greater.
Design educators must carefully consider
the redefinition of the design professions
and the manner by which they will be
conducted as an element of education that is
as central as the studio culture. Integrated
practice depends on evolving technological
solutions as well as new team organizational
models. And it demands a response from
the education community. If we ignore
this challenge we will do our students a
disservice.
The reality of international practice is
forcing us to accept a world that is smaller,
faster and more competitive. Outsourcing
and off-shoring aspects of practice is
evolving at a rate so as to redefine both the
nature of entry-level skills and the abilities
required to lead a design firm. Firms and
teams are formed and reformed to match
projects as well as political contexts.
Even those who expect to conduct their
professional lives within a well-defined
regional context will more than likely be
required to interact with international
corporations, clients and funding sources.
Lawrence Sommers has observed that
the action and inaction of human beings
imperils life on the planet and the life of the
planet itself. Sustainability cannot be an
option within professional design studies; it
must be an integral aspect of education and
a fundamental component of professional
studies.
Just as we can marvel at the advances of
knowledge we can also wonder at a world
where many are left behind because of
advancements in technology and education
that are simply not available to them.
The land-grant mission of our University
demands of us an involvement in the most
vital affairs of our community and our state.
We must educate individuals to assume a
responsible role in their communities. It is
through such involvement that the power
of design will be realized on behalf of those
who are least able to work on their own
behalf. However, we should not see this
only as working on behalf of others. When
we engage the community, we enrich our
own spirit. We demonstrate the importance
and the relevancy of what we do, thereby
attracting the best and the brightest to our
side. When we work to secure the diversity of
others we secure our own right to expression.
When we enable others we enable ourselves.
What an amazing lesson this is for the
youngest among us. What an important
value to engender in those who will lead our
professions.
This is an opportunity for leadership. The
design professions are exploding with new
knowledge, with skills tested by application,
and measured by how we markedly improve
the lives of those who experience our work.
The College is continually refreshing its
community of faculty with new members
and new leadership. In the transitions we
gain energy and enrich our perspective.
Over the past several years we have added
new faculty, brought new leadership into
the College and expanded our program
offerings. This has opened the possibility of
pursuing topics as diverse as environmental
justice, information technology and
affordable housing.
Just as we must confront the challenges
of our time, we value the freshness of the
dream for what we want to become. This is
the commitment we affirm for the College
of Design. The freshness of dreams fosters
many ideas to flourish as we respect the
authority of ideas. Ideas are the fresh air of
design. This is the culture of the College of
Design community.
Dean's MESSAGE
D e s i g n Gu i l d Aw a r d
D i s t i n g u i s h e d Alum n u s
Design Guild Honors Ann Goodnight
College of Design Selects Charles A. “Chuck” Flink II as Distinguished Alumnus Award Winner
Ann Goodnight was honored with the Design Guild Award at the 10th Annual Design Guild
Award Dinner held Saturday, March 3, 2007 at The Umstead Hotel & Spa in Cary, N.C.
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nn Goodnight passionately works
“Ann makes the connection between the
to promote the arts and education in our
value of the arts and the creativity necessary to
community. From enhancing our state’s
foster a prosperous community. Her thoughtful
collection of art to founding Cary Academy
and relentless support of the arts, as well as
to supporting the educational initiatives of
her inspiring leadership in education makes
the Contemporary Art Museum and serving
obvious her commitment to entire well-being
on the NC State University Board of Trustees,
of our region. For her impressive service to
Ann has dedicated herself to improving
our community, she well-deserving of the
the world we live in. Often connecting her
recognition that comes with the Design Guild
support for visual arts and education, she
Award,” says Dean Marvin J. Malecha.
has engaged countless schoolchildren
in learning though the arts and
design. Whether she’s overseeing an
architectural design project, selecting
works for future collections of the North
Carolina Museum of Art, or strategically
planning a campaign to support one
of many community initiatives, Ann
Goodnight has a keen eye for detail
while staying focused on the ultimate
goal of building a thriving community.
For her unflagging support and
dedication to the arts and education,
the Design Guild is proud to name Ann
Goodnight the 2007 Design Guild Award
recipient.
Thomas Schaller’s rendering of The Umstead Hotel and Spa. Architect: Three Architecture Incorporated.
he College of Design has named Charles A.
“Chuck” Flink II, FASLA, as its 2006 Distinguished
Alumnus. Flink is a 1982 graduate of the College
of Design with a Bachelor of Environmental
Design in Landscape Architecture. He is founder
and president of Greenways Incorporated,
an environmental planning and landscape
architecture company established in 1986 and
based in Durham, N.C. He is widely regarded as
one of the nation's leading greenway planners
having completed comprehensive greenway and
open space plans for more than 100 communities
within 32 states. He has also provided consulting
services to clients in Argentina, Canada, Japan
and St. Croix, USVI. In 2003, Flink was elected
a Fellow in the American Society of Landscape
Architects in recognition of his extraordinary
work and achievement in landscape architecture.
Flink has co-authored two award-winning
books: Greenways: A Guide to Planning, Design
and Development, and Trails for the Twenty-First
Century. Both publications have been cited by
the American Planning Association as the “best
single reference” on the creation of trails and
greenways. Flink has been featured in prominent
national and international publications including
National Geographic, Landscape Architecture,
Walking, American Planning, Rails-to-Trails, Good
Housekeeping, Buzzworm Environmental Journal,
Charles A. “Chuck” Flink II, FASLA, (BEDLA 1982)
Southern Living, Business Journal Magazine and
American City County. In 2001, Flink received
a Merit Award from the American Society of
Landscape Architects for his involvement with
the Grand Canyon Greenway project. In 1995,
he received an Environmental Excellence Award
from the U.S. Department of Transportation
Federal Highway Administration for his work on
the Swift Creek Recycled Greenway, the nation's
first greenway built from recycled trash. Flink is
the recipient of numerous other national, state
and local planning and design awards for his
work on greenway, open space and trail projects
throughout the United States.
Flink has lectured on the planning, design
and implementation of greenways at more than
150 national and international conferences
since 1986. He served as an adjunct professor of
landscape architecture at the College of Design
from 1994-1998. He served three consecutive
terms as chairman of the Board for American
Trails, Inc. Washington, D.C., and as a member
of the North Carolina Greenways Advisory
Commission. He is currently chairman of the
Board of Trustees for the East Coast Greenway,
a 2,800-mile urban greenway that extends from
Calis, Maine, to Key West, Fla., along the Atlantic
seaboard of the United States.
College of Design Dean Marvin J. Malecha,
FAIA, says of Flink, “Chuck offers to society the
design knowledge and practice that we strive to
teach our students. He is a leader in his profession
and, more importantly, he solves problems for
communities, bringing people together to find
sustainable and open space solutions that will last
for generations. The College of Design community is
tremendously proud of Chuck’s accomplishments.”
Flink was honored on Friday, January 26,
2007, at NC State’s Distinguished Alumni Awards
“Evening of Stars” event at the Dorothy and Roy
Park Alumni Center on Centennial Campus. He will
serve as the College of Design’s commencement
speaker on May 12, 2007.
RECOGNITION
First in National Sustainable Design Competition
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hree counties in North Carolina are sporting a brand-new design
for some of their Habitat for Humanity homes, courtesy of a hardworking team of NC State College of Design students. The team took
first place at the 2006 U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) Natural
Talent Design Competition after winning the statewide competition.
What started as an independent study venture for five architecture
graduate students to enter a statewide sustainability competition,
garnered them a national first place award in sustainable design.
The students were enrolled during the Spring 2006 semester in an
independent study with Adjunct Associate Professor Randy Lanou
(M.Arch. 1997) and spirit leader School Director Tom Barrie.
For alumnus Randy Lanou, owner of BuildSense, supporting
the students through the statewide competition was the goal of the
independent study. Barrie says, “They get a faculty advisor and design
the building completely. It turns out to be a lot more than three credit
hours worth of work.”
Team members Andrew Darab, Frank Giordano, Eric Jabaley, K.C.
Kurtz and Susan Ungerleider represented North Carolina in the national
competition after winning the Sustainable Building Design Competition.
The state prize was $5,000, and the national prize was $2,500.
Features on this 1/4" scale model include rainwater catchment, bamboo privacy
screen and architectural greenscreen. National jury commented on the simple
elegance of the design scheme.
Full-scale wall section from state competition presentation materials.
(L-R) Randy Lanou, faculty advisor, Eric Jabaley, Andrew Darab, Frank Giordano, K.C.
Kurtz and Susan Ungerleider smile broadly after winning the statewide competition,
which qualified the team to compete nationally.
The goal of the USGBC’s annual competition is to draw attention
to the availability of affordable, environmentally friendly buildings, by
asking competitors to design structures within certain environmental
and cost parameters. The NC State team designed a home using
passive solar energy to decrease heating and cooling costs. They also
incorporated universal accessibility and energy-efficient construction,
and they did it all within a materials budget of a mere $46 per square
foot.
With a statewide win, the four students and one who had since
graduated, teamed back up on their own time to compete at the national
level. Lanou still guided the student team as they had to take a large
series of models and presentation boards down to just two 30" x 40"
posters for the national competition.
According to K.C. Kurtz, “We had such a comprehensive presentation
and a huge model display that went above the statewide requirements;
it was challenging to cull that down into two posters. That was national’s
attempt to level the playing field because it is like choosing ‘best in
show’ at a dog show…with all the different program requirements,
you are comparing apples to oranges.”
The team had to learn to work together, maximizing their strengths
in order to finish the project.
“I think we did a good job of recognizing the strengths of each
member,” says team member Susan Ungerleider. “K.C. and Eric both
had indispensable building experience. Andrew and Frank are great
at graphic layout and programming—laying out the spaces within the
home to maximize the floor plan’s functionality.”
Instead of creating an active “solar house,” which uses expensive
photovoltaics to absorb the sun’s energy, the NC State team created
a “passive solar” design, which means that the longest part of the
structure is oriented along an East-West axis. In addition, glazing and
engineered roof overhangs are used so that in the winter the glazing
allows the sun’s energy into the structure, and blocks it in the summer,
thus heating and cooling the home more efficiently.
“Designing sustainable structures is really a matter more of
education than expense,” says team member Kurtz. “You can create
energy-efficient housing by using off-the-shelf products; it doesn’t
have to all be custom built.”
The judges at the national competition agreed. When everything
was said and done, there was a three-way tie for first place, with
the NC State student design team taking the honor along with two
professional architecture firms.
“To a person, this was an outstanding team,” says Lanou. “They’re
smart, and were invested in the project both personally and intellectually.
I had a high level of confidence that they could win the competition,
because they created a workable, real-world design.”
“We didn’t realize that we’d be competing against professionals at
the national competition,” says Kurtz. “The state competition was only
open to students—but that’s not the case elsewhere. The team was
really proud of that.”
The state title meant that their winning design would be built. So
far, Habitat for Humanity has built the house in Orange and Catawba
counties, with the Chatham County house still under way. If the pilot
houses go well, the home plans could be added to the Habitat for
Humanity planbook, available to homeowners nationwide. Durham
and Yancey counties have expressed interest in the plans, too.
Ph.D. Candidate Traci Rider serves on the National Emerging
Builders Committee of USGBC. She was organizer for national-level
sustainable design competition. She coordinated the 12 state winning
entries into the national competition and worked closely with the
teams to prepare for the Denver finale.
Tracy Dixon with Advanced Energy, located on Centennial Campus,
was the organizer of the statewide competition in North Carolina.
Tracey Peake from NC State News Services contributed to this article.
Building detail of the Hillsborough home in Orange County during construction
including advanced in-line framing and raised-heel energy trusses.
FEATURE ARTICLE
P ar k S cholar ship s Br ing Top S t uden t s
t o Colleg e o f De sig n
HGTV Dream Home – NC State Edition
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he Park Scholarships at NC State are one of the most prestigious
undergraduate scholarships in the United States. Currently valued
at $59,000 for in-state students (40 awarded this year) and $107,000
for out-of-state students (10 awarded this year), the innovative,
year-round program had more than 1,000 applicants for those 50
scholarships. Competition is fierce and time-consuming as prospective
students work from completing
applications through initial, semifinalist and finalist interviews,
some given by previous Park
Scholars and alumni. College of Design freshman
Alex Wiedemann is one of those
rare recipients. The Clayton,
N.C.-native knew others from
her high school who were Park
Scholars, such as Casey Coats
(see story at right), and she was
very familiar with the College of
Park Scholar Alex Wiedemann
Design since she attended Design
Camp the summer before her junior year.
“I really fit in here. There are opportunities to really connect with
the faculty,” she says.
One of the requirements of each Park Scholar is to select a
community service agency to be involved with while enrolled at NC
State. Wiedemann, a graphic design major, is working with two other
Park Scholars to create an electronic marketing plan for the Eastern
Chapter of the Multiple Sclerosis Society to help spread the word about
M.S. and the society’s activities.
She also enjoys being part of the Park Sparc program where Park
Scholars visit high schools to encourage students to apply.
College of Design Park Scholar is also Leader of the Pack
Also from Clayton, N.C., Landscape Architecture (LAR) Junior
Casey Coats received the Leader of the Pack award of $1,000 at the
homecoming football game against Ga. Tech on November 4, 2006.
The Leader of the Pack scholarship replaced the homecoming king
and queen several years ago. Interested students must submit three
essays and an application, which along with their GPA determine if they
are one of 12 semi-finalists (six male and six female). Semi-finalists then
make a 10-minute presentation, immediately followed by an interview,
to determine six finalists. The week before homecoming, finalists are
allowed to campaign and the student body takes a vote. The vote is only
part of the total score, so no one knows who wins until homecoming.
Though suffering from mononucleosis, Coats made it to the game
and walked away with the scholarship! Since Park Scholars get free
tuition, room and board for four years, Coats will use the scholarship to
pay for her required fifth year in LAR.
Coats’ list of accomplishments also include being appointed
as an alumni student ambassador and serving on two homecoming
committees. She was also selected to participate in Wolf Aide, a program
that teaches leadership skills.
In addition
to being a Park
Scholar and
participating in the
mandatory learning
labs during breaks,
Coats is president
of the National
Society of Collegiate
Scholars, NC State
Park Scholar and Leader of the Pack Casey Coats with
Chapter.
her parents.
father-son team of NC State alumni recently worked on a oncein-a-lifetime project—the HGTV 2006 Dream Home.
In 1982, Al Platt, Architect (M.Arch 1975) opened his practice in
the mountains of Brevard, N.C. Al’s son, Parker (BEDA 1994, B.Arch.
1999), joined him in 1994. The name was changed to Platt Architecture
in 2005 and it is now a 12-person firm specializing in residential and
community based architecture. Parker's NC State classmate Jan Erik
“Bud” Holland (BEDA 1994; M.Arch. 1997), who joined the firm in
Al and Parker Platt
1997, served as project manager for the Dream Home project.
When HGTV made plans with Grey Rock Development to build the 2006 Dream Home at Lake
Lure, Jack Thomasson, home planner for HGTV, recommended Platt Architecture, a firm that
strives to design houses that complement landforms and preserve the natural integrity of the land.
Mark Barker, principal of MWB Construction from Black Mountain, N.C., was chosen as the builder.
The entire project moved very quickly through design and was completed in nine months,
which is normally up to a three-year process.
The small firm usually works on 8-10 homes a year, but the success of the Dream Home
project has increased demand for their work. “We have heard from people all over the world who
compliment the home and our design,” says Al Platt.
More information about the 2006 Dream Home located at Lake Lure, N.C., can be found at hgtv.com/
dreamhome. Learn more about Platt Architecture at www.plattarchitecture.com.
Platt Architecture staff in front of the HGTV Dream
Home. L-R: John Witherspoon, Parker Platt, Bill Pauer,
Celia Hickson, Brad Kimzey, Amy Montieth, Sue
Whitehurst, Stephanie Holland, Bud Holland, Laura
Botch, Ava Carr, Al Platt, Steve L’Heureux. Not pictured,
Wendy Lofton, Celesta Britton and Brian Fireman.
FEATURE ARTICLE
Cotton Steers Folbot to Success
A
fter 24 years, product designer Phil Cotton (BPD 1968) still looks
forward to going to work every day as owner of the Folbot kayak
company.
“I still go in and have fun,” Cotton said. “I like to build things and
I’m a product designer, so every day is play day!”
Cotton’s journey as an NC State student did not begin in product
design, though. He was accepted originally into the mechanical
engineering program. After visiting his brother’s product design
studio where they were building kites, Cotton was intrigued and
entertained the possibility of a major change prior to his freshman
year. Luckily for him, Dean Henry Kamphoefner permitted him to
enroll in product design.
“Back then a lot of the curriculum overlapped with architecture
and landscape architecture,” Cotton says.
During the late 60s when Cotton graduated from NC State, most
men had to go into the service. So after his June graduation he was off
to the U.S. Navy’s officer candidate school in Rhode Island in July.
After completing his service, Cotton accepted a job in the carpet
division of Burlington Industries, which meant moving to Lexington,
Va. He spent eight years as a project engineer “creating fun things like
a tile-stacking machine,” he adds, since he was the only product
designer on staff.
In 1979 he relocated to Charleston,
S.C., to become the general
manager of a textile
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company. He stayed with the company, but was looking for another
challenge.
Luck was still riding with Cotton when a friend’s father, who was
the head of industrial development in Charleston, suggested that he
look into purchasing Folbot, whose founder passed away in 1982.
Enamored with the idea of becoming his own boss and relying on
his own business decisions, Cotton was able to round up four investors
and became the president of Folbot.
Although the company brought kayaking to the U.S. in 1935, there
had been no product innovation for years according to Cotton, “If the
sales are this good with this product, surely, I can improve on that!”
Although faced with a reluctance to change within the company,
Cotton started revamping the aesthetics of most models to meet
market demand for lighter, stronger, highertech boats. He decided to abandon
wood for polycarbonate and
aluminum.
At his
youngest son’s request, he
built a long, skinny fast boat that has
been successful. He still sketches his designs and
builds full-scale prototypes since such high-end equipment
is at his disposal.
Now Folbot has 17 employees in Charleston and they have
distributors in Germany, Canada, England and Australia. Seventy-five
percent of Folbot sales are in the U.S. and all warranty and repair work
is done in Charleston.
“I don’t paddle as much as I should,” Cotton says. “I do test every
boat personally.”
Normal turnaround of an order is about two weeks since each boat
is customized, but the Internet has increased business.
“Since 1983, it’s been a good living for my employees and me …
and we’ve made it successful with our focus on customer service,”
explains Cotton.
He has discovered that if you go out of your way, it is great
advertising. “It works better when 99 percent of the
customers are nice, patient and
understanding … a live voice
answers the
phone,” Cotton says. “If there is a problem, we take care of it.”
“I talk to 90 percent of our customers at some point and our
customer service is second to none,” Cotton adds, attributing part
of the wisdom to the many classes he had through textiles
companies on how to deal with people.
“I’m not money-driven … if I break
even and have fun, I’m
happy!” he says.
Right: Illustration is of the Cooper,
one of Folbot’s latest folding frames.
Below: Phil Cotton tests a Cooper kayak on
the Ashley River a few blocks from his office.
Visit the Folbot Forum
(www.folbotforum.com),
noted as the best and biggest
manufacturer’s kayaking
forum with information on
Flotillas and more.
FEATURE ARTICLE
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Gene Bressler Aims to Make Urban Development
Better in North Carolina
A
s Department Chair, Professor Gene Bressler rebuilt the landscape
architecture curriculum and program at the University of Colorado
at Denver and Health Sciences Center (UCDHSC). While at UCDHSC,
he was appointed founding Director of the University’s Center for
Sustainable Urbanism, and produced a series of public conferences,
“Colorado Tomorrow,” that examined urban growth and development
challenges and issues facing the state.
Now heading the Landscape Architecture Department at NC State’s
College of Design, Bressler brings his experience, creativity and passion
to Raleigh. “The College of Design has a great reputation in areas of
community design. There is rich history and tremendous resources at
NC State in terms of projects, people and
facilities. That, coupled with the realities
that this beautiful state is experiencing
tremendous growth and development
pressures, provides an excellent laboratory
for research, teaching and engagement.” At Colorado and Oregon, Bressler
and his colleagues developed computermodeling tools for land use planning that were used to determine
sites suitable for development, “game” alternative growth and
development scenarios, and to evaluate possible consequences of
various development strategies. The research and applied course work
addressed multiple scales from that of a geographic region, the design
of a community and down to the design of home sites.
Bressler is excited about continuing and expanding his work and
the capability of the College of Design to become the “think tank” and
place to learn and test best practices for studying and dealing with
urban growth and development issues. In particular, he is interested
in working with faculty and students in the college’s School of
Architecture, other units on campus, UNC-CH’s Planning Department
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Design Studio Connects Alumni and Triangle
Universities
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Gene Bressler, second from left, interacts with freshman landscape architecture
fundamentals studio.
and external professional colleagues to develop expertise using new
computer modeling and simulation tools to design more sustainable
communities.
Bressler says the landscape architecture program, specifically, will
better prepare its students with design thinking capabilities coupled
with rigorous technological training to enable them to more effectively
deal with the why’s, what’s, who’s and how’s of sustainable development.
In his previous position, Bressler was involved in the Colorado
Community Design Network, a group of university faculty and students
along with a number of external constituents consisting of planners,
bankers, lawyers, landscape architects and architects. Together, they
participated in the college’s studios, lectures and reviews, and engaged
students in examining what “better design and development” means.
He hopes to create a similar, more advanced group at NC State.
“NC State has the greatest potential to make a difference in the
quality of future urban development,” Bressler says. “I’ve only been in
Raleigh six months, but I am quickly discovering its remarkable ‘cando spirit.’ I’m settling in and getting to work.”
by W. Michael Leigh (MLA 2006)
all Semester 2006, brought a new twist to the usual design studio
experience at the College of Design. This semester the Department of
Landscape Architecture worked in collaboration with University of North
Carolina-Chapel Hill, Duke University and NC State University offices of
the University Architect on site-specific campus design projects.
Landscape Architecture instructors, W. Michael Leigh, RLA, ASLA,
(MLA 2006) and M. Elizabeth Wakeford, (BEDA 1985) facilitated a
University Campus Design Studio for undergraduate students working
on actual projects at the three university campuses. In cooperation
with alumni from the College of Design, all three institutions used the
studio for two weeks to work on solving a design problem for a specific
area of each campus.
Duke was facilitated by Mark Hough (MLA 1997), where students
worked on a new entrance to Cameron Indoor Stadium and an entrance
at their student union. Issues included circulation, parking and
landscape enhancement.
NC State was coordinated by Tom Skolnicki (MLA 1997) which
allowed the students to work on proposed renovations to areas near
Tucker Residence Hall, Cates Drive and Talley Student Center. These
dealt with new circulation, student spaces and the greening of campus.
UNC-CH was facilitated by Jill Coleman (MS in LAR 1988) where
Students at UNC-CH campus discussing the quad with the UNC-CH historian.
Emiley Blackwell (BLA student) presenting her Wayfinding program to UNC-CH.
the students worked on three campus projects working to improve
circulation at Main Library, Undergraduate Library and Memorial Hall.
Solutions involved ADA accessibility, new plant material and removal
of poor pedestrian circulation.
Final projects consisted of a wayfinding system at UNC-CH for firsttime visitors, Master Plan of Central Campus for Duke University and NC
State had a special request by Chancellor Oblinger to locate and ‘Create
Iconic Spaces’ on campus. Each student spent five weeks working up
design solutions for these projects, which where presented to each
university’s faculty and staff.
Students were involved in site analysis, design development and
schematic design, working with the university contacts and other staff
members. Each student presented unique solutions to each specific
problem. Final implementations are being considered by NC State
University Housing, UNC-CH Wayfinding Committee and Duke Master
Planning.
To help better understand the opportunities and constraints at
other urban and growing university settings, students also spent five
days visiting the University Architect’s offices at Carnegie Mellon
University, Chatham College in Pittsburgh, Pa., and Georgetown,
American and George Washington universities in Washington D.C.
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Graphic Design: An Expanded View
T
he academic experience and faculty interaction offered by the graphic
design program is helping a group of students bring their design ideas to
life in a variety of ways. Their excitement and in-depth interests helped
new Graphic Design Department Chair Santiago Piedrafita decide to bring
his talents to NC State.
When most people think of graphic design, they visualize letters on a
page intertwined with illustrations or photographs. Graphic design today
encompasses many more personalities.
Take Paul Venuto, a senior from Washington, D.C., and Richmond,
Va., who has always had an interest in interactive design and Web sites,
but says he did not realize that motion graphics fell into the discipline of
graphic design.
Since coming to
NC State, Venuto’s
visions have
expanded even
more. “For example,
in my sophomore
studio project with
professor Kermit
Bailey, we took
projects from static
Still image from Venuto’s “Routine”
print and brought
those elements to life through animation,” says Venuto.
Using Flash, Maya and AfterEffects, Venuto teamed with Islam
Elsedoudi to produce a one-week collaborative motion piece titled
“Routine.” The project appeared in the December 2006 10 Years of
Animation at the College of Design show at The Fish Market.
Last year he was enrolled in an advanced graphic design studio whose
goal was to produce a Web site for the Contemporary Art Museum, now
an initiative of the college. Venuto says, “The project presented a great
opportunity to introduce and visualize the goals of CAM while exploring
the role of creativity in everyday life.”
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Lauren Broeils,
a senior from
Weddington, N.C., took
a winding road that
led her to capitalize
on her computer and
graphic talents. The
designer of sixdegrees, a
student graphic design
publication sponsored
by RedHat and Gamila,
launched her college
Poster designed by Broeils
education at Appalachian
State University as a chemistry and criminal justice major. She used to
write computer programs to make her homework easier and realized she
had a knack for computers.
She transferred to NC State’s College of Engineering as a computer
science major and minored in Design Studies. After completing her
degree in 2002, she worked in programming but had an urge to blend her
computer and design interests.
Broeils’ meeting with Denise Gonzales Crisp, then department chair,
helped her decide to earn another bachelor’s degree even though it would
take her three years to complete. Systematic/big picture ideas that would be implemented across all
different media appeal to Broeils, who explains, “I’m very interested
in the cultural sector of graphic design. I have a super plan to move to
Mexico and am taking a Pan American Studio this spring that focuses on
systems/connections beyond borders…taking design more global.”
For now, Broeils is an in-house designer (part-time) at Barefoot Press
in Raleigh, creating identity systems, Web sites and working with prepress to learn more about the process.
Like Broeils, Katie Nordt, a December 2006 graduate from Apex,
N.C., did not begin her design major immediately. She was a College
of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHASS) student and transferred
sophomore year. Because she likes to paint, Nordt says she thought about
majoring in design as a senior in high school. After enrolling at CHASS,
she signed up for a 2-D design class with Kathleen Rieder. “I loved the environment when I visited the school during my
freshman year,” says Nordt, who was selected to design the commencement
program for winter graduation.
Nordt describes her love of books “as an object and an artifact.” She
likes to write and collects books by good designers. In fact, when she
travels she often selects books as keepsakes.
It comes as no surprise that her favorite project was in her mentor
Maura Dillon’s studio. “We designed four different books: 30 pages, 60
pages, 100 pages and one collaboration,” explains Nordt.
As an independent study with
Dillon and Crisp, Nordt completed
a book with the New Hill Community
Association including oral
histories of the area.
Although she has
a deep love for books,
Nordt delights in
designing in any
medium or area.
Book designed by Nordt
Earning a minor in
French while at NC State, she studied in Lille, France, and traveled all over
western Europe, as well. Her long-term goal is to move to New York and
work for publishers.
The fourth child in her family to attend NC State, Nordt has decided to
stay in the area for a three-month internship at CapStrat for now, working
on small projects as part of the creative team.
Like Venuto and Broeils, Nordt went to London this past summer term
to learn about the art of letterpress with professor Tony Brock. “I would
love to explore that more,” she adds.
Brock is the mentor for Jon Knox Griffin of Rutherfordton, N.C., a
senior who became an entrepreneur while in design school. Griffin purchased rights to the domain name hellobrute.com in
December 2005. By January 2006, he had put some of his favorite work
online, some illustration, books, etc.
Currently, he has a poster series, which sprung from one of Brock’s
studios, in production with the
North Carolina Department of
Justice warning school children
about the dangers of Internet
predators. Griffin also won a t-shirt
design contest on threadless.com
Hello, Brute collection by Griffin
and garnered a $400 prize. From
this recognition, he was commissioned to do other projects.
In Spring 2006, he had t-shirts appear on Owlmovement.com and
Urbanoutfitters.com, and later in the year, a brand in the UK known as
HiCalorie started producing his t-shirt designs.
Griffin likes to transform 2-D work into 3-D. He learned to sew
while enrolled in an Art + Design studio in western Australia during
Spring 2006. He learned about patternmaking from Rebecca Paterson of
“Breathless” fashion studio and also managed to participate in five gallery
exhibitions while there.
So where did Hello, Brute come from? “I wanted something ironic. I had
written down a list of words and I liked how the word brute stuck out at me.
It sounded like ‘cute’ but meant the opposite. I added the word ‘hello’ in
front of it in hopes of helping it stick out from other brands,” says Griffin.
Hello, Brute features designer toys. Griffin enjoys art directing and
developing product lines around character design. His characters could
be described as anthropomorphic, not quite human and not quite animal.
The owner of Rotofugi in Chicago found Griffin on the Internet
and liked what he saw. He called and asked if Griffin would have a solo
exhibition Feb 2 – Feb 25 at his art gallery and toy store. “I worked on it for
six months. My show included hand-painted vinyl toys, hand-sewn plush
toys, paintings, canvas illustrations, skateboard decks and more,” he adds.
Griffin, who has been drawing since he was five, says his biggest
surprise about design school is that he has learned so much from his
peers. “It is good to go through the process with others,” he adds.
Learning to screen print himself, Griffin plans to open his online
store soon.
To see more designs from these students, visit their Web sites:
Paul Venuto…www4.ncsu.edu/~pavenuto
Lauren Broils…www4.ncsu.edu/~lrbroeil
Katie Nordt…katienordt.com/
Jon Knox Griffin…hellobrute.com/blog.php
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A chieve ! Camp aig n Reache s Mile s t one
O
n November 17, 2006, Chancellor Oblinger announced that NC State had
reached a milestone in the Achieve! Campaign for NC State University. More than
$1 billion has been raised with approximately one and a half years left until the
end of the campaign. NC State has now joined an elite number of universities
across the country that has reached this level of private donations.
College of Design Campaign Progress
In the Spring 2006 Design Influence, the overall goals for the six main campaign
aspirations were outlined. As of December 31, 2006, the College of Design is more
than 70 percent toward its $9 million dollar campaign goal.
Thanks to the support of alumni and friends, the college’s endowment has grown
during the last 10 years from $300,000 to more than $3 million, with an additional
$3.9 million pledged in planned gifts. The income from these endowments combined
with the annual support result in more than $116,000 of available funds to the
students and faculty. This year more than 50 students received scholarship and
fellowship support totaling $65,000.
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Total raised
(as of 12/31/06)Campaign Goal
Percent
to Goal
Scholarships & Fellowships
$1,136,212
$2,000,000
57%
Faculty Support & Research
$1,313,575
$2,000,000
66%
Program Development
$2,165,835
$2,000,000
108%
Facilities & Equipment
$ 337,701
$1,500,000
23%
Unrestricted Support
$1,389,845
$1,500,000
93%
TOTAL
$6,343,172
$9,000,000
70%
Scholarship
Recipients
Top: Franklin Bost
(2nd from right) with
the L. Franklin Bost
Industrial Design
Fellowship recipients
and Department Chair,
Bryan Laffitte (left)
Right: Larry Best of
LandDesign Inc. with
scholarship recipient
Emmita Lyford
Right: Herb and
Catherine McKim
with their scholarship
recipient Edward D.
Paschall
Right: Smith Sinnett
Architecture
Sonyia Turner with
firm members (l-r)
Jorge Abad, John
Sinnett, Jamey Glueck,
and John Hitch
Right: Chuck Messer
with the Tackle Design
Nicole Catapano
We still need support from all
College of Design Alumni!
Design Fundamentals Fund, Prague Initiative Funds, the Contemporary
Art Museum, the Natural Learning Initiative and diversity initiatives.
One of the frequent questions we receive is “what funds can I support?”
There are many funds within the college to which anyone may contribute.
• Faculty research and scholarship support — The faculty within
the College of Design are doing amazing research projects and other
scholarly work. The work that College of Design faculty does brings
national and international recognition to the college and provides
students and alumni with valuable information. Support is always
needed for their research, studios, publications and classes.
• Departmental Funds for Excellence — Each department has a
Fund for Excellence that provides the chairs and director with muchneeded unrestricted support. These funds allow departments to provide
additional resources to students and faculty that state funds do not
cover, including visiting lecturers, field trips, supplies and research
support. Another very important way to support the college is by
becoming a member of the Design Guild. Design Guild memberships
provide the college with unrestricted funds that allow us to print
this magazine, bring in visiting lecturers, and support the student
Design Council and The Fish Market, the student-run gallery located
in downtown Raleigh. Gifts to the Design Guild also fund alumni
receptions and events throughout the country, and support the college,
students, faculty and alumni in many other important ways. You may
use the envelope inserted in this magazine to send a donation for the
Design Guild or any departmental Fund for Excellence.
• Scholarships and Fellowships — There are annual and endowed
scholarships and fellowships to which anyone may contribute. Each
department has several named funds, some in honor or memory of a
former professor, such as the Duncan Stuart endowment, the Robert
Burns endowment, the Joe Cox endowment and the John Reuer
endowment. The college’s ability to attract and retain the most talented
and promising students from across the country and the world raises
the value of an education from NC State, not only for current students,
but for our alumni as well, by enhancing the reputation of the college.
For more information on funds that benefit your department, please
contact Carla Abramczyk in the College of Design External Relations
Office at (919) 513-4310 or by e-mail at [email protected].
• Program support — These funds support specific programs within
the college such as The Student Publication Fund, the Leazar Hall
• Facilities and equipment — The College of Design continues to provide
cutting-edge technology for our students to better prepare them to enter
the work force. The renovation of Leazar Hall provided expanded studio
space as well as one of the best shops in the country. The next step in
improving our facilities will be a new 60,000+ square foot building
adjacent to Kamphoefner Hall. We are number one on the Board of
Trustees list for a new building and we plan to begin the preliminary
design in the next year. In order for the new building to become a reality,
we will need support from the State of North Carolina and from our
alumni, friends and allied industries. There will be many opportunities
to name spaces within the new building. In addition to new facilities,
we are continually upgrading the computer lab, the shop, the weaving
labs and other equipment vitally important to the education of our design
students. For more information on the new building and equipment needs,
please contact Carla Abramczyk in the College of Design at (919) 513-4310
or by e-mail at [email protected].
60th Anniversary
We need your ideas and input, creativity and memories! Would
you like to be the leader for your class reunion event? Do you have a
great idea for a reunion activity? Do you keep in touch with a lot of
people from your class? Do you have a special memory from your
years in design that you would like to share during the reunion? If
you answered yes to any of the above questions, we want to hear
from you! Please contact the College of Design External Relations
Office at (919) 515-8313 or by e-mail at [email protected].
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C omm e n c e m e n t
Commencement Address
by Peter Batchelor, Professor of Architecture
NC State University College of Design, December 20, 2006
I
t is both a
great honor and
responsibility to
address you, the
graduates of this class.
Whatever your
individual notions
of the change of life
that await you with
the acquisition of your diplomas, and these changes will be very great
indeed, the experience that you have had at the College of Design
will continue to shape your future development as professionals and
individual men and women.
As I stand here, also on the verge of a major change of life, I wonder
what it is that I can tell you that you don’t already know. How can you
listen to a man who doesn’t even own a cell phone, or an iPod? How can
you place any faith in someone who only has a limited comprehension
of your music, and your music videos? Why would you believe in
someone who values handwriting over computer-generated text? As
you can see, pursuing this line of thought is not particularly productive
at my age. If the criterion for wisdom depended upon one’s currency
in the material world I would fail the test miserably, but it doesn’t,
fortunately.
It is tempting to make comparisons about “then” and “now,” the
time past being my experience as a professor at the College of Design
and as an architect, and the time present being my current experience
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with design students. Many things are different and many things are
the same. For example, most of you cut and paste words and images
every day with an ease which would have been unimaginable in 1968,
my first year as a faculty member on this campus. And yet the only way
one could create a publication at that time was to print galleys, cut out
rectangles of Rubilith, and paste both onto thick paper copyboards.
What is the same is the process of placing text and photographs within
a graphic format, as well as the words used to describe this process,
and what is different is the method by which this is accomplished. I can
safely assume that some of you have not had the original cut and paste
experience and probably have no idea what I am talking about.
Why should we be concerned about what happened in the past
and what happens today? It is because the passage of time allows us
to judge the relevance of an idea or an object and to sense its viability
and permanence in the realm of concepts and material things. This
is important because it helps us to separate the transitory elements
of our culture from the constituent ones, to separate trends from the
more solid foundations of life. It is important that you understand
this distinction because it could mean the difference between making
significant contributions to the advancement of society through your
skills and creativity as designers, as opposed to merely riding on the
achievements of others.
What a daunting responsibility it is for me to place on your
shoulders “the advancement of society” as a professional objective.
That, of course, is the real purpose of your education. You may well
become architects, landscape architects, graphic designers, product
designers, and so on, but the general aim of your education is to help
shape the destiny of humanity in all its conceivable dimensions.
Fortunately—and returning to my desire to tell you something which
you don’t yet understand—you have been superbly equipped to do this
by the College of Design.
Look carefully at your diploma, either now or later, and imagine
that it is a lid. Pull downwards on this imaginary lid using a vertical
axis to create a three-dimensional object. The object of your creation
is a box with some interesting properties: It is a Magic Box. Lift the lid
and peer inside and you will find still more Magic Boxes, each with
their own lid and label. This is what your education has given you—a
Magic Box with many remarkable properties, one which will enable you
to help advance the aims of society through your skills and creativity.
Let’s lift the lid of the Magic Box on its hinges and select the first
box inside to determine what you have been given. The first box we will
select is called “language.”
Language
The language of design is universal. You can travel to the far
corners of the earth, to places where you cannot communicate in the
spoken language of your peers, and yet there will be instant recognition
of your ideas. In all probability your language skills were very meager
upon entry into the College of Design, but over the years they have
grown and matured.
As faculty we do not consciously teach courses in design language.
Instead, the language of design is imbibed slowly through the desk
criticism and jury process of learning. In this process you have to
stand in front of your peers, as you will do for the remainder of your
lives, and explain what you have created. There are a large number
of words and phrases which comprise the language: Figure-ground,
axis, symmetry, closure, datum, format, alignment and so on. As an
educator I have tried to define them by way of written explanation
to students, although I am not sure that such effort led to increased
illumination in the minds of students since design language only
makes sense in the context of a material object.
One thing is certain: Your language will continue to expand over
time with experience in the professional world of design. Moreover, you
will never reach a point at which you can confidently state that you are
completely fluent in the language of design.
Let’s close the lid on language for a while and see what is in the next
box, principles.
Principles
The application of language to concepts generates principles of
design. It enables us to assemble the component parts of our ideas
according to some notions of harmony and order. We choose symmetry
or asymmetry to express our ideas because there is an underlying
sense of purpose in their choice. Perhaps you are not conscious of this
purpose when the meaning of the choice is embedded in the dogma of
your design field. Teachers and practitioners of design often seize upon
ideas without explaining their purpose, and you should be wary of this
practice since it leads to what I mentioned earlier—the tendency to
favor trends over the more permanent aspects of design, or transitory
over constituent ideas.
An architect will forever muse why the house of a speculative
builder has roof gables that are unrelated to the plan of the house
because he has been taught that “form follows function.” A landscape
architect will wonder why a project called “Riverside Forest” has
neither river nor forest and when all living plants have been eradicated
from the ecosystem. A graphic designer will scratch his head in wonder
at the incomprehensible jumble of text and images of the typical daily
newspaper. In all these cases the underlying principles of order were
not carefully defined, or else willfully ignored.
Adherence to principles requires a disciplined mind, a
determination to remain true to form. This is what you learned during
the long hours of project development, and what was reinforced at
your desk and in the jury room. No matter how hard you try, you will
never be able to ignore them. Imagine this scenario: A friend shows
you her wedding invitation. It is a small card, trimmed with lace paper,
and with a pale yellow paper on which the announcement is printed
in silver font. Looking at it you say to yourself “there is insufficient
contrast between the figure and the ground,” but since she is a friend
you say instead “I cannot read the message.” Friend, family, client—it
makes no difference. Your principles will continue to guide your
creativity throughout your life, for better or worse. Also, once learned
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and applied, principles are almost impossible to discard.
We will gently close the lid on principles, and look next at craft.
Craft
What wonders meet our eyes in this box!
Craft represents the convergence of tools and techniques. If
anything has changed over the course of my life it is the way we create
our books, buildings, landscapes and products. Gone are the days
of the T-square, plastic triangles, templates and slide rules. Now we
have the computer, monitor and software to help us realize our ideas.
I know that some faculty in the college are trying to keep one foot in
each camp—the traditional and the contemporary—and there is good
reason to believe that it may be a valid approach to design (if for no
other reason than computers crash and data becomes corrupted), but
there is no question that the emergence of new tools and techniques is
altering the outcome of our design concepts. Can you imagine the work
of Frank Gehry without his access to computer-aided design?
I must confess to a certain nostalgia for those beautifully made
drawing instruments, wooden scales marked off in inches or
centimeters, elegant French curves. There is an immediacy between
hand and eye which I find fulfilling, though I suppose you derive
an equal amount of satisfaction from the digitally printed drawing.
For both you and me, separated as we are by two generations, the
concept of craft keeps us trying to improve both our technique of
communication and our understanding of the tools to accomplish
this end. We cannot do this without the components of our next box,
romance.
Romance
Romance is the love of something, initially uncritical, which excites
the mind and prompts further exploration. Alfred North Whitehead,
scientist, educator and philosopher writing in The Aims of Education,
says that “…The stage of romance is the first stage of apprehension.
The subject matter has the vividness of novelty: it holds within itself
unexplored connections with possibilities half-disclosed by glimpses
and half-concealed by the wealth of material…”
My romance with architecture and urbanism grew out of childhood
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experiences in London, the city of my birth. Lacking the amenities
that facilitate rapid movement and communication such as a car and a
telephone, I walked and cycled the streets of that city, experiencing its
sights, sounds, smells and visual delights. It was here that I discovered
the connection between house and neighborhood, building and street,
architecture and urbanism. This connection revealed to me the quality
of a city through its public spaces, the study of which is encompassed
within the interdisciplinary field of urban design. And so I fell in love
with cities, a passion which I convey to my students in class and in
studio.
Romance is a necessary prerequisite for student and teacher alike.
Without it there would be no sharing of knowledge and no discovery.
Creativity would be impossible without the love and passion that
romance engenders. Moreover, romance may be irrational. No one will
question your love for design, and no one doubts its existence. And yet
it would have been impossible to pursue your studies, as you have done,
without exceptional love and passion for design.
Our final box is abstraction.
Abstraction
The greatest benefit of higher education is that it enables us
to abstract knowledge in a coherent fashion, allowing us to make
generalizations about the material and intellectual universe.
Abstraction for us is the equivalent of a working hypothesis; through
it we are able to construct a concept based on prior observation and
experience.
Abstraction facilitates the creation of a model of the design idea
that we are about to explore. For example, the design of a city square
involves me in abstract issues of context, movement of people and
vehicles, and civic functions. Similarly, the design of a chair involves
the product designer in the consideration of materials and processes,
ergonomics and anthropometrics. Without the capacity to abstract we
are limited to assembling details on a piece-by-piece basis, and our
knowledge lacks a comprehensive understanding of the task at hand.
The university as a learning environment teaches all of us to
abstract knowledge. Abstraction is no less a virtue for the English
major and engineer than it is for the designer. In the College of
Design we have placed a high priority in the comprehensive
understanding of problem-solving as opposed to the mere
creation of artifacts.
In summary, the Magic Box is the gift of the College of
Design to you as young professionals.
A final word must be said about the conditions of
ownership of these boxes:
The Magic Box cannot be destroyed.
No known weapon of the human intellect can alter or
destroy the contents of the Magic Box. Also, each separate
box inside evolves according to the career path that you have
chosen. In fact, both the big box and its contents expand over
time to accommodate the growth of your design knowledge.
The Magic Box cannot be left behind.
Throw it into the back recesses of your mind and lo!—it
reappears at will. This can sometimes be embarrassing in
presentations to clients when you are forced to disagree with
their assumptions. In public life I am in frequent conflict with
city councils and government agencies who tend to plunge
ahead on large expenditures without full information. I don’t
have enough fingers on my hand to count the number of times
I have heard otherwise intelligent people say that “in order
to obtain a high-density residential environment one must
have high rise buildings.” This isn’t true, of course, and we
pay a high price in socio-economic terms by removing large
numbers of people from contact with the ground floor plane of
the city.
The Magic Box cannot be transferred to others.
It is uniquely yours. While your peers, faculty and colleagues
have influenced and will continue to influence its contents, the
character of the box is made especially to fit your needs.
This, then, is the final message: We, the faculty, have given
you this Magic Box. Use it to seek fulfillment in life, build
illustrious careers, create great works of design and advance
human society.
Good luck!
Peter Batchelor Retiring
Professor of Architecture Peter Batchelor is retiring after teaching in
the School of Architecture since 1968. Granted the status of Professor
Emeritus of Architecture and Urban Design from NC State University’s
Board of Trustees, Batchelor is a Fellow in both The American Institute
of Architects and the American Institute of Certified Planners.
Born in London, Batchelor earned a bachelor’s in architecture with
honors from the University of British Columbia, and master’s degrees in
architecture and city planning. Batchelor has won more than 35 honors
and awards for academic achievement, architectural design, drawing,
communication, urban and regional planning. He has written 51
refereed articles in journals and technical reports and is the co-author
of two books. He also has two books pending publication.
He has practiced urban design in three countries over the previous
44 years. He has chaired major national AIA committees and edited
Urban Design Case Studies. A licensed practitioner in architecture
and city planning, he directs the AIANC Urban Design Assistance
Program, which provides interdisciplinary problem-solving teams to
communities.
Archival photo of Batchelor and students
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School of Architecture Students Share Their
Experiences with the Public During the Fall
Semester Open House at the College of
Design’s Downtown Design Studio
Alumnus Screens Motion Picture at NC State
Campus Cinema
College of Design alumnus and
first-time director Matt Checkowski
(BGD 1998), pictured right, screened
his debut film, Sony Pictures’ “Lies
and Alibis,” on November 15 at 6:30
p.m. at NC State’s Campus Cinema.
Checkowski introduced his film
and participated in a questionand-answer session immediately
following the screening.
Prior to co-directing “Lies and
Alibis,” Checkowski was best known
for his work with director Steven
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NE W S
The College of Design’s undergraduate students
at the School of Architecture got a chance to
show Raleigh’s citizens and design professionals
their Fall semester studio project “Raleigh SoMo:
Affordable Housing and Urban Design in the
Downtown Raleigh Arts District” during the Open
House at the college’s Downtown Design Studio on
Friday, December 15, 2006.
After an official welcome by Dean Marvin J.
Malecha, visitors from the Raleigh area, including
Raleigh City Council members Thomas Crowder
and Russ Stephenson (BEDA 1979; B.Arch. 1990)
and NC State’s Vice Chancellor Dr. James J. Zuiches,
toured the Downtown Design Studio, interacted
with students and observed the student projects.
The projects explored mixed-use development on
multiple sites in the section of downtown Raleigh
south of Moore Square, consisting of affordable
housing for local artists and artisans as well as
studios, gallery and commercial space.
Taught by School Director Tom Barrie and
Teaching Fellow Sean Vance (M.Arch. 2006), “The
Raleigh SoMo” was a studio project designed for
students to study, discuss and design around a
range of issues germane to the contemporary
American city, urban design and housing. The
project also considered multiple contexts relevant
to the building type and its specific setting
including social, political, historic, economic and
ecological issues, contemporary urban design
theories and strategies; and the multivalent
aspects of place experience and meaning.
The AIA Triangle sponsored catering for the
Open House. For further information about the
Downtown Design Studio, please contact Dr. Celen
Pasalar at 919.515.89 52 or [email protected].
Spielberg. Checkowski and his directing partner,
Kurt Mattila, created the dream sequences
for Spielberg’s acclaimed science fiction film
“Minority Report,” starring Tom Cruise. More
recently, Checkowski has worked on designing
new opening sequences and a new look for ESPN’s
Monday Night Football. The university’s Public
Affairs office selected Checkowski to be featured
in an NC State ACC Basketball television ad this
spring.
Art + Design Faculty Hosted the Southeast
Fibers Educators in September
On September 22 -23, 2006, the College of Design’s
Fibers Program faculty—Vita Plume, Tracy
Krumm, Susan Brandeis and Brooks Stevens—
hosted the annual professional meeting of the
University Expands Prague Institute
Study Trip to India Completed in December
The College of Design’s Prague Institute Initiative
is busier than ever. The studio space was doubled
A group of seven from the colleges of Design
and Natural Resources traveled for two weeks in
India in December, visiting design and planning
institutions in the cities of New Delhi, Vadodara,
Ahmedabad and Mumbai, as well as local sites of
historical, design and natural interest.
The group was comprised of faculty Georgia
Bizios and Paul Tesar from the Architecture
dept.; Martha Scotford from Graphic Design;
Gene Brothers from Parks, Recreation and
Management; plus LAR alumna Katherine Gill
(MLA 2005); Jan Trask, Ph.D. Student in PRM;
and Rosemary Hoffman from the University of
Maryland. The trip was planned with the help
of Shishir Raval, adjunct associate professor of
Landscape Architecture, now living in Vadodara,
who accompanied the group.
The Center for Universal Design Begins New
Projects
The Center for Universal Design, now housed in
Leazar Hall, has been contracted to review more
than 10,000 square feet of exhibits and exhibit
space for a new National Children’s Museum
being designed in Washington, D.C. With a focus
on universal design and recognizing diversity
within the public population, the center strives
to make environments and multi-sensory exhibit
experiences usable by everyone. The museum’s
goal is to promote equity and further develop
healthy, engaged, global citizens.
to allow other colleges to offer programs in NC
State’s first International Center. In addition to
design studios, NC State’s physics and master’s
of accounting programs house classes in Prague.
General education requirements are available
as well. This summer all NC State students may
register for World Literature and Czech Film
courses. For more information, contact Prague
Institute Director Dana Bartelt via e-mail at
[email protected].
CONFERENCE: Designing for a Sustainable Urban Region • MARCH 24
Join architects, landscape architects, planners,
government leaders, engineers and developers
on Saturday, March 24, 2007, at the Sheraton
Raleigh Hotel for the 4th annual urban design
conference presented by NC State University
College of Design and the City of Raleigh
Planning Department.
“Designing for a Sustainable Urban Region”
will offer current information, strategies and case
studies on designing and planning the urban region
through sustainable practices. Participants will
gain practical knowledge to promote sustainable
design approaches ranging from sites to entire
regions. In four presentations, design, transportation, leadership and partnerships, speakers will
offer their perspectives on the urban region through
the lens of the three dynamics of sustainable
development: ecology, equity and economics.
Each presentation will be followed by 45-minute
panel sessions including the speakers and local
experts. Gail Lindsey, FAIA, principal of Design
Harmony, will serve as the conference facilitator.
Major session topics:
• Design: Bill Valentine, FAIA, Chairman, HOK
• Transportation: Catherine Ross, Director,
Georgia Tech’s Center for Quality Growth and
Regional Development
• Leadership: Mark Johnson, FAIA, Principal,
Civitas, Inc.
• Partnerships: Daniel Iacofano, Ph.D., FAICP,
ASLA, Principal, MIG
For more details and how to register, check the
conference Web site: www.design.ncsu.edu/region
or contact Director of Professional Relations
Jean Marie Livaudais at [email protected]
or 919.515.8320.
conference Kick-Off:
On Friday, March 23, 2007, at 6 p.m., Karsten
Heuer, wildlife biologist and author of Being
Caribou will speak at the Campus Cinema in
Witherspoon Hall about a remarkable fivemonth journey following a herd of 120,000
caribou through the Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge. The book and the award-winning
documentary of the
same name by his wife,
filmmaker Leanne
Allison, brings alive
the story of these
endangered animals
and their threatened
migration.
©Karsten Heuer
C O L L EGE
Contracted by Norway’s Ministry of the
Environment, the center will produce a report to
assist the government with implementation of a
national universal design strategy. The report will
review current thinking on the applicability of
universal design principles to building, product
and urban design.
Southeast Fibers Educators Association. This is an
organization that Susan Brandeis founded in 2001.
The group usually meets at Penland School, but
met at the College of Design in 2004 and 2006.
The meeting includes a social dinner, opportunities
to share current art work in progress, events and
changes in our respective curricula, and discussion
of innovations and challenges in teaching fibers
and textiles today.
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A L U M NI / F r i e n d s
Three alumni recognized at 2006
National ASLA Conference in October
Visiting Adjunct Professor and Distinguished
Alumnus Rodney Swink (MLA 1977),
FASLA, was awarded the President’s Medal
for sustained, unselfish and devoted service
to the Society at the national level.
Clemson University Professor Emeritus
of Planning and Landscape Architecture
Donald L. Collins, FASLA (BLA 1968;
MLA Harvard 1969) received the Jot D.
Carpenter Teaching Medal for his sustained
and significant contributions to landscape
architecture education.
Visiting Adjunct Professor of Landscape
Architecture and Alumna Susan Hatchell
(MLA 1982), FASLA, has been named Vice
President for membership of the American
Society for Landscape Architects.
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winning entry in a design competition for the
Dubai Mixed Use Towers high-rise development.
The 1,600,000square-foot
project is divided
into two slender
towers situated
on each side of
a multi-story
atrium. A folded
sheet of glass
overlaps the front
façade of each
Cara Carpenter (BED 1996) has established
Studio Pragmatik, LLC, a visual communications
and graphic design firm based in Chicago, Ill. As
principal of Studio Pragmatik, Carpenter manages
the firm and heads up its creative direction.
Studio Pragmatik serves a national client base.
Carpenter has more than 10 years
of experience developing and producing
communications for clients including Fortune
500 companies, national retailers, distinguished
cultural institutions and other nonprofit
organizations. Her work has earned awards from
the AR100, the American Graphic Design Awards
and the ARC Awards for annual reports.
Curtis Fentress, FAIA, RIBA, (BEDA 1972)
reports on several projects with Fentress Bradburn
Architects, based in Denver and Washington, D.C.
The 120,000-square-foot National Museum of
the Marine Corps opened in Quantico, Va., on
November 10, 2006. Fentress Bradburn had the
Fentress Bradburn Architects
Ben Benson (BEDA 1984) and Victor Jones
(BEDA 1989) have joined Tyke Jenkins (B.Arch.
1967) and Joddy Peer (B.Arch. 1967) as principals
of their firm Jenkins • Peer Architects in Charlotte.
Benson joined J•PA in 1994 and is a LEED
Accredited Professional with more than 20 years
of design experience. Jones joined J•PA in 1998
and has 15 years of architectural experience. He is
also a LEED Accredited Professional.
distinction from
the U.S. Green
Building Council
when its recently
completed
Sweetwater
Creek State Park
Visitors Center
was awarded
the Platinumlevel LEED certification. In the new construction
category, this visitors center is only the 20th
building in the world and the first in the Southeastern
U.S. to be awarded USGBC’s highest distinction.
Stan Doctor
Roy Abernathy, AIA, (BEDA 1990) is one of the
six recipients of the 2007 AIA Young Architect
Award. Abernathy, managing partner with Jova/
Daniels/Busby Inc. in Atlanta, was recognized
for his leadership and involvement with young
architects at the local, regional and national level.
tower. The Raleigh-Durham International Airport
Terminal C Redevelopment project is scheduled
for completion in 2009. Angelica Garcia (BID 2000; MID 2005) relocated
to Kohler, Wis., and started a new position as
industrial designer II for Kohler, Canac in October. Stay in touch: [email protected].
Nick Merrick
Notes
Atlanta architect Dan Gerding (B.Arch 1983)
worked on a project that was recently awarded
the highest benchmark by the group that certifies
environmentally conscious buildings. His firm
Gerding Collaborative reached international
Matthew Griffith (M.Arch. 2002) a former
recipient of the prestigious Kamphoefner
Fellowship at the College of Design, has joined
Frank Harmon Architect in Raleigh as a designer
and project manager. Besides the Kamphoefner
Fellowship, Griffith also received the American
Institute of Architect’s School Medal and the
Faculty Design Award. His focus is on urban design.
Before joining Harmon’s firm, Griffith worked
in Fayetteville, Ark., with Marlon Blackwell Architect
and served as a visiting assistant professor of architecture at the University of Arkansas (2002-2004).
Cal Poly’s Robert E. Kennedy Library was the
site of an exhibition of architecture, furniture
and product design titled “M:OME – Modern
Sustainable Living” held Oct. 27 to Dec. 15, 2007.
California Polytechnic State University San Luis
Obispo Professors of Architecture Laura JoinesNovotny (MS 1987) and Tom Di Santo were
featured in the exhibition including architectural
designs, process drawings, watercolor renderings,
furniture and lifestyle product design, all
incorporating proven sustainable technologies.
Greg Lindquist (BAD and BA English 2003),
March 8 through March 31, 2007. Lindquist is an
artist and writer. He will receive a dual master’s
degree in fine arts in painting and art history from
Pratt Institute in the spring of 2007. Lindquist’s
landscapes evoke Brooklyn’s industrial past and
future residential growth. The exhibition documents
specific sites of building and decay in the present
Williamsburg waterfront and surrounding areas of
Greenpoint, where construction cranes, glass and
concrete structures rapidly supplant dilapidated
warehouses and beaches of rubble, in anticipation
of residential towers and public promenades.
These paintings and drawings seek to document
the transformations through a subdued palette,
balancing graphic sensibility with painterly
animation. His work explores landscape as a
memorial. As both physical fact and repository for
collective memory, landscape becomes a work of
the mind, the internal projection of an ethos onto a
perception of external environment.
The artist and innovative weaver, Elizabeth
Morisette (BED 1994) was awarded the Juror’s
Merit Award of $1,000 in the “FOLK ART:
Tradition and Innovations Exhibition.” The highly
spirited exhibition featured the work of 30 local
artists selected in a juried competition by Dr.
Raymond G. Dobard, professor of art history at
Howard University. The exhibition is on display
at The Art Gallery, Arts/ Harmony Hall Regional
Center, Fort Washington, Md., through December
30, 2007.
Morisette also was awarded a future solo
exhibition by The Maryland-National Capital Park
and Planning Commission, Arts and Cultural
Heritage Division. The Greenbelt artist’s inventive
baskets and wall pieces are made with the
materials she finds “at hand,” such as twist ties
and men’s neckties.
Rod Morton (MPD 1990) owns a consumer
design business named HOSS, which handles
several high profile projects a year for the United
States Tennis Association (USTA). In September 2006, Morton designed the
dedication plaque for the renaming of the USTA
Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New
York. The ceremony kicked off the 2006 US Open
and was attended by tennis stars Chris Evert, John
McEnroe, Jimmy Connors and Venus Williams.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg unveiled the
plaque for an audience of more than 25,000 seated
at stadium court. The ceremony and Morton's
McCaig-Welles Gallery will present “To Brooklyn,”
an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by
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design were featured on the USA Network and CBS
Sports and broadcast to more than 180 countries
around the world. The New York Times ran the
design on the cover of the next day's sports section.
This year Morton has been asked to design
the retirement plaque for Andre Agassi, which will
be unveiled on the opening day of the 2007 Open.
In addition to tennis, Morton has also worked for
the Home Depot Summer Olympics campaign, the
PGA and NASCAR.
institutional relations projects. Joyner Visitor Center
is located at the corners of Western Boulevard and
Varsity Drive.
STEP Inside Design magazine’s January issue mentions
three College of Design alumni in the “Design
Industry News” section. (www.stepinsidedesign.com/
STEPMagazine/Article/28711/0/page/2). Students
Caroline Okun (BGD 2006) and Carolin Harris
(BGD 2006), developed sixdegrees (sixdegreeszine.
com), a print and online magazine to promote
student work. Also mentioned is Matt Checkowski
(BGD 1998) who co-directed his first feature film
“Lies and Alibis” distributed by Sony Pictures.
Shawn Sowers (MID 2004) developed his first
product at Lenovo – the Lenovo USB Webcam
(pictured at bottom of page), which was inspired
by three cameras – the Minox Spy Camera, the
Polaroid Land Camera, and the Contax I4R digital
Camera. The Minox had the biggest influence on
the overall concept, a small portable webcamera
that protects the lens when it is closed and that
slides open to power on the camera and reveal the
lens and an LED. In the first week of its release it
was on almost 30 blogs and was being referred to
as the new “Bond Spy Cam”. The only constraint
Sowers had mechanically was that the webcamera
had to be 75mm in one direction to accommodate
the circuit board. Sowers said his team’s concept
was not only beautiful and clever; it was smaller,
lighter and saved $4.32 per unit, which is
impressive in an industry that makes decisions
based on amounts less than a cent per unit.
The project took 10 months, during which
Sowers was able to travel to China to work with the
engineers and spend time in the factory inspecting
the tools and working with the tooling staff.
The NC State Department of Creative Services worked
in conjunction with Wayne Poole (BEDP 1973),
owner of Design Dimension, to design and implement
Alumni Teach Graphic Design in India
Geoff Halber (BGD 2002) initiated the
idea following the experience of Professor
Martha Scotford, a Fulbright lecturer there
in 2001. Cheryl Berkowitz (MGD 2006)
taught typography there for two months this
summer.
In January and February 2007, Jay Harlow
(MGD 2006) will continue the connection
for two months, teaching packaging design
and information design. Srishti, founded in
1996, is a private college and suffers, as many
Indian schools do, from a dearth of design
teachers.
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NC State Creative Services
Beginning in 2004, Graphic Design graduates
have been traveling to Bangalore, a high-tech
city in the south of India, to teach in the
graphic design program at Srishti Institute
of Art, Design and Technology.
the exhibit area in the E. Carroll Joyner Visitor Center,
the official “front door” of the university. The 2,200square feet of space includes a rotating Calder-like
sculpture mobile, a presentation theatre area and
multimedia kiosks featuring more than 30 videos
that prospective students and other campus
visitors may choose to watch. The space
recently won a Council for Advancement
and Support of Education (CASE)
District III Award of Excellence for
Three College of Design graduates are serving as
faculty at Appalachian State University in Boone,
NC. Pictured top of opposite page, left to right, are
Banks Talley (BID 1996; MID 2002), who is in his
third year as an assistant professor of industrial
design; Donald Corey (MID 1996) who is in his
generated project. It is called the Hold-n-One wall
mounted golf bag holder.
Shane Totten (BEDA 1989; M.Arch. 1995), AIA
LEED AP, was recently named studio director with
Gerding Collaborative. Gerding Collaborative’s
design for the Sweetwater Creek State Park Visitors
Center was recently certified LEED Platinum (New
Construction). This is the first Platinum (NC)
building in the Southeast and 20th in the world.
first year as an assistant professor of industrial
design (after serving as a visiting professor in
Spring 2006); and Chad Everhart (BEDA 1998;
M.Arch. 2003) who is in his first year as an
assistant professor of building science. Corey, owner of The Other Edge, held the
inaugural Design Expo Raleigh from October 20
- November 4, 2006. A two-week celebration of
designers in the Triangle, the theme was “Hidden
Gems: Great Design in Our Own Backyard.” (For
more, go to www.dxraleigh.com.)
The Other Edge just released a new product at
the PGA Expo in Orlando, the company’s first self-
Works by Joyce Watkins King (BED-VD 1979)
will show at Artful Living, on level three of the
Hickory (N.C.) Furniture Mart. The exhibition
opened Feb.1 and continues through March.
Carol A. Wilson (BEDA 1976; M.Arch. 1978)
FAIA, was awarded a 2006 Honor Award for
Design Excellence by AIA New England for her
Bisharat Residence, Chebeague Island, Maine.
(www.aianewengland.org/designawards.shtml)
Wilson’s own studio in Falmouth, Maine,
was just published in Michael J. Crosbie’s new
book, Architecture for Architects. Her furniture
was exhibited at the Messler Gallery of the
School for Furniture Craftsmanship in Rockport,
Maine, as part of the show “Getting Personal:
Maine Architects Design Furniture.” See www.
woodschool.org/gallery/architects2006/index.html.
Dave Wofford (BED 1994) was featured in The
News & Observer’s Home section Jan. 27, 2007,
in “Still Impressed with Letterpress,” an article
about his design/letterpress studio Horse &
Buggy Press in Durham (horseandbuggypress.
com). Wofford works out of a five-person
collective called the Bull City Arts Collaborative
(BCAC - bullcityarts.org) that has just started a
foyer gallery space. The Upfront Gallery will be
open every Friday from 12-2 p.m., and the third
Friday of every month from 6-9 p.m. as part
of the Durham
Culture Crawl. The
BCAC will have
open studios the
weekend of April
14-15 as part of
the city artwalk,
which coincides
with the Full Frame
Documentary Film
Festival.
In Memoriam
Charles H. Burger Jr., ASLA
Charles H. Burger Jr. (MLA 1980) passed away on Jan. 3, 2007, from injuries sustained in an automobile accident on Christmas day that also took the lives of
his wife, Barbara, and 20-year-old son Ivan.
Burger graduated from the State University of New York College of Forestry in Syracuse, N.Y. in 1971. By profession, he was a landscape architect. He worked
for firms in New York, Montreal and Raleigh before starting his own firm in the late 1990s.
Burger’s expertise included residential landscape architecture and park design. After earning his Master of Landscape Architecture degree in 1980 at NC State
University, he taught in his field at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, and had been an adjunct faculty member at NC State since 1986. He was a
member-at-large of the American Society of Landscape Architects, a member of Historic Preservation N.C., was on the National ASLA Committee for Honors and
Awards and was a member of the Hillsborough Parks and Recreation Task Force.
“Charles was such a great guy with a joyous spirit. He had a passion for landscape architecture, teaching, stewardship of the land, and building camaraderie
with his peers. It is a painful loss,” says Susan Hatchell.
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Notes
F A C U L T Y / STA F F
Professor or Architecture Thomas Barrie will
step down as director of the School of Architecture
at the conclusion of his five-year term in August
2007. During the following academic year he
will be on scholarly leave and will return to fulltime teaching fall semester 2008. In addition to
teaching, Professor Barrie will lead communitybased urban design projects through the NC State
University Extension Office. A national search is
currently being conducted to find his successor.
Professor of Architecture Georgia Bizios, director
of the College of Design’s Home Environments
Design Initiative, received the 2006 AIA Triangle
Outreach Award, which recognizes her “exceptional
efforts to broaden the understanding and awareness
of AIA Triangle in the community.” In particular,
the AIA Triangle celebrated Bizios’ leadership in a
new partnership between the NC State School of
Architecture and The News & Observer. Beginning
in 2006, the newspaper has published a monthly
“Home of the Month” series, highlighting outstanding residential designs in North Carolina.
Professor Bizios thanks Dean Malecha for his
strong endorsement of the program and credits
fellow faculty members and School of Architecture
graduate students for their support of the series as
architectural writers. In 2007, the series will expand
to be published in The Charlotte Observer also.
The grand opening of the Rosa Parks Place
Community Transit Center in Charlotte was held
September 18. Chandra Cox, department chair
and associate professor of Art + Design, was the
artist hired by Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS)
to complete the project. She led a project team to
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incorporate West African Adinkra symbols into
the design of the transit center.
An article about the new Rosa Parks Place
Community Transit Center, located on Beatties
Ford Road, appeared in The Charlotte Observer
September 18, 2006.
In November Associate Professor of Graphic Design
Denise Gonzales Crisp gave a lecture and workshop
for students at the Kansas City Art Institute and
was a Hallmark Symposium speaker for the School
of Art and Design at Kansas University. The title of
her talk “Discourse This! Design That! Options for
Marking Trouble.”
week in August. NC State University signed a fiveyear exchange agreement with the Beijing Institute
of Technology (BIT) in October. This agreement
outlines intended collaborations with the College
of Design.
The college's involvement will be in three areas:
1. BIT will translate and publish a number of the
Center for Universal Design’s publications.
2. The center will work with BIT to develop and
deliver universal design curricula to its students, and
3. BIT and the college will exchange students and
faculty.
The November issue of Architectural Record
included an article about Assistant Professor of
Architecture Frank Harmon’s design of the North
Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences Prairie Ridge
Ecostation for Wildlife and Learning. Harmon’s
firm designed the treehouse-like observation perch
for studying the natural world. Harmon, FAIA,
will discuss the evolution of Modern architecture
in the South when he presents a seminar for the
South Carolina chapter of the American Institute
of Architects in February.
Medical Center testing ergonomic interventions for
sonographers. She published, jointly with professors
IE at NCSU and OSU and an MD at Duke, “Lowlevel exertions of the neck musculature: a study of
research methods”, in the October 2006 edition of
the Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology.
Joines has also been invited to present a
workshop on aging and work and serve as a Master
Ergonomist at the Applied Ergonomics Conference
in Dallas, Texas, March 12-15, 2007.
Professor of Industrial Design Haig Khachatoorian
received a Phi Kappa Phi 2006 Promotion of
Excellence Grant ($9,000) and a Product Research
& Development Grant from Bugatti/Landa
Illuminotecnica Division, Lumezzane S.A. (Brescia)
Italy ($2,000). He was recently appointed as chair,
Percent-for-Art Program Committee of the Chapel
Hill Public Arts Commission and also serves on
the SculptureVisions Program Committee.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art + Design Tracy
Krumm has works in two upcoming shows: Artists
in Residence Exhibition, Hoffman Gallery, Oregon
College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR, Oct. 5-29,
and Material Difference, Chicago Cultural Center,
Chicago, IL, Nov. 4, 2006, through Jan. 7, 2007.
The Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, Va.,
one of the largest and most successful art centers in
the U.S. housing more than 165 visual artists and
with an average of 700,000 visitors a year, invited
Lope Max Díaz as juror for its Visual Rhythms/
Ritmos Visuales art exhibition. The exhibition will be
open to the public from July 28 - September 3, 2007.
On January 10, 2007, Industrial Design Professors
Percy Hooper and Glenn Lewis were honored
at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry
in a ceremony for the opening of a special exhibit
showing the work of 45 outstanding Black Industrial
Designers titled “Black Creativity 2007: Designs for
Life.” The exhibit will run from January 12 until
February 28.
Professor of Industrial Design Glenn Lewis, IDSA,
presented papers at the following conferences:
“Connecting – a conference on the Multivocality
of Design and its History and Design Studies” at
the University of Art and Design in Suomenlinna,
Helsinki, Finland in August; “Elements of Change ’06”
IDSA National Conference and Education Symposium,
Austin, Texas in September. Lewis has been invited
to speak at the “Creativity and Conformity/Building
Cultures of Creativity in Higher Education” conference at the University of Wales Institute Cardiff.
Richard Duncan and Leslie Young from the
Center for Universal Design visited Beijing for a
Assistant Professor of Industrial Design Sharon
Joines has a joint project with Duke University
Dean and Professor of Architecture Marvin Malecha
spoke on “Interdisciplinarity in Education” at the
University of Calgary’s 35th anniversary EVDS
(Environmental Design Studies) Symposium on
October 21.
Professor of
Architecture
Wayne Place’s
book titled
Architectural
Structures,
now available
by Wiley
Publishing,
provides
the critical
tools and
know-how to
design and build structures that will withstand
wind, earthquakes, and other forces. This major
survey of structural design is a useful guide to the
fundamentals of establishing the structural concept
for a building and dealing with structural issues.
Assistant Professor of Art + Design Vita Plume
was selected for a Canada Council for the Arts
Project Grant. Plume’s grant funds the producing
of a body of work based on combination of woven
shibori and Jacquard weaving, continuing her
investigation of hand and industrial weaving
technologies and documenting the process and
results. Plume had work in an international
exhibition of Jacquard textiles presented in
Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles gallery
from Oct. 2 to Nov 2, 2006.
Distinguished Professor of Architecture Patrick
Rand was named a Fellow in The Masonry Society
at the annual meeting in mid-October. Rand, the
first faculty member to receive this honor, has also
been recognized as recipient of the President’s
Award.
Part of the citation read about Professor
Rand at the ceremony: Pat Rand has served
his University, The Masonry Society, and the
Architecture Profession in an exemplary manner
throughout his career. He has distinguished himself
as an architectural educator through his selection
by North Carolina State University as an Alumni
Distinguished Professor, a rank awarded to only
a very few of the most outstanding faculty. He has
served The Masonry Society with distinction as
President, as a member of the Board of Directors,
as Chair of the Sustainability Subcommittee, and in
numerous other ways. He has led the architectural
sessions of the University Professors Masonry
Workshop since its inception over twenty years
ago. He has conducted numerous masonry-related
research projects from the architect’s perspective,
and many of the results have been published in
TMS publications. He has positively impacted
masonry architectural education throughout the
country arguably more than any other individual.
For his many contributions to TMS, he received the
President’s Award in 2005.
Distinguished
Professor of
Architecture
Patrick
Rand has
co-authored
the book
Architectural
Detailing;
Function
Contractibility
Aesthetics with
Edward Allen. The book, published by Wiley, is
Rand’s second book to be released in 2006.
Assistant Professor of Graphic Design Will Temple
wrote a design review of “The Couch: Thinking in
Repose,” an exhibition at the Freud Museum in
Vienna that appears in Eye magazine (vol. 61).
FACULTY/STAFF NOTES
29
Notes
ST U DENTS
Master of Industrial Design student Spencer
Barnes was featured in an Autodesk online
interview on January 7, 2007. Barnes explains
about the ID 415-002 Advanced Digital Product
Modeling class that he taught during the Fall 2006
semester at the College of Design.
Andrea Donnelly, a senior in Art + Design, has
had a piece accepted in the Fiberart International
2007; Exhibition of Contemporary Fiber Art in
Pittsburgh, Penn. Her work was one of 93 pieces
selected from 1,500 works submitted by 609 artists
from 29 countries. The piece accepted is a woven
cube titled “Density” completed in Lope Max
Díaz's painting studio in spring 2006.
African American Design Student
Association Assists with Food Bank Drive
at North Carolina State Fair
Seventeen members of the African American
Design Student Association (AADSA)
participated in the annual food drive for the
Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina
held on October 19, 2006, at the N.C. State
Fair. The 2006 Food Lion Hunger Relief Day
garnered 217,819 lbs. of canned food donated
by fair goers.
AADSA’s advisor is Assistant Dean for
Student Affairs Marva Motley.
Pictured are 13 of the 17 volunteers who
helped with the food drive. (L-R, front)
Lauren Smith, Jessica George, Samantha
Everette, Amber Majors, Brittany Davis,
Monique Cleveland, Ashley Kirkman,
(L-R, back) Sharvin Whitted, Chris
Rosemond, Wesley Brown, Gary Atkinson,
Alisha Stewart and Zena Jeffress.
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Landscape
Architecture Graduate
Student Kristen
Ford merited one
of two Dangermond
Fellowships given
by the American
Society for Landscape
Architects (ALSA)
for her proposal, “Reimagining the Land: Toward
a Framework for Brownscape Assessment,
Design and Redevelopment.” The research will
address two fundamental steps in the brownfields
redevelopment process: site assessment and site
design. GIS will be used to develop a systematic
assessment process and model creative approaches
to site redevelopment.
The Dangermond Fellowship, which was created
to encourage the innovative use of geographic
information systems (GIS) as a framework for
exploring integrated approaches to landscape
assessment and intervention, provides up to three
$10,000 fellowships, plus software and hardware.
Art + Design Junior A.J. Klingenmaier won one of
two third place prizes of $100 in a cartoon contest
FASHION SHOW
Please reserve the date for the sixth annual Collection: Art to Wear
2007 fashion show set for Thursday, April 26, 2007, (April 27, rain
date), 8 p.m. A collaboration of the College of Design and the College
of Textiles, the event will be held in a new location, The Court of North
Carolina, on the main campus of NC State University. This is the
second year that students’ designs are juried into the show.
The 2007 student codirectors are Liz Morrison from the College of
Design and Emily Cosgrove from the College of Textiles. There have
been 15 designers selected by jury to be part of the show from a field
of 23 submissions. Designers: Brandon Alley, Elizabeth Bradford,
Elizabeth Brown, Emily Cosgrove, Liz Dickinson, Sara Marie Jenkins,
Saet Kim, Charli Mize, Liz Morrison, Rachel Randall, Allison Russel,
Nina Tie, Holly Weaver, Genavieve White, Sarah Yarborough.
for college cartoonists on the studentaffairs.com
Web site The cartoon theme was “Campus Life and
Technology.”
Hollin Norwood, a senior in Art + Design, had
his work juried into a group exhibition titled “NEW
ART 2007: National Emerging Artist Competition” in
Boston. The exhibition ran from January 5-27, 2007.
The competition was juried by Raphaela Platow, chief
curator, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University.
Some of the 2006 designs from (l-r) Liz Morrison, Rachel Randall and Kendall Smith.
The October 2006 issue of CM News, a magazine with national circulation produced by the National
Concrete Masonry Association (NCMA), included an item on Architecture undergraduate and
graduate students who participated in the NCMA Midyear Meeting in Vancouver, B.C. The students were on teams in ARC 232 Structures and Materials class last Spring that won first
and second places in the 2006 Collegiate Competition, sponsored by NCMA. Each of the five students
on the winning team received $500 scholarship checks. Two new concrete block designs were
presented by the students at the conference, and attracted considerable interest from the masonry
manufacturers in attendance.
Ph.D. student and adjunct instructor in architecture
Traci Rose Rider has been selected to serve as a
jury member this spring for the prestigious AIA
Top Ten Green Projects in Washington, D.C.
Anna-Marie Zylicz and Allison Morgan are
DaVinci scholars (majoring in both design and
humanities) who are both studying in Prague for
the Spring 2007 semester. Each received a $1,000
scholarship from NC State’s Friends of the Gregg
Gallery of Art & Design. Zylicz is studying graphic
design with Denise Gonzales-Crisp and Morgan is
studying landscape architecture with Art Rice and
Fernando Magallanes.
Left to right: Frank Werner, Adams Products Co., Student Unit Design Chairman Darryl Jones, Geoffrey Barton,
Juliane Kuminski, Nicole Alvarez, Bradley Maples and Tim Dougherty, Anchor Wall Systems, PDCC Chairman.
STUDENT NOTES
31
College of Design
Faculty and Staff
DESIGN G U I L D
Design Guild is an association of alumni,
Dean’s Circle ($5,000)
Craig McDuffie
K.C. Ramsay
friends, design professionals and industry
leaders established in 1996 to promote design
education at the NC State University College
of Design through private contributions
and gifts.
Richard A. Curtis
Charles A. Musser, Jr.
Rodney L. Swink
HagerSmith Design, PA
Linda J. Noble
Fred M. Taylor
Ozell Stankus Associates
Walton R. Teague
Benefactor ($2,500-$4,999)
Architects Inc.
Michael Tribble
Adams Products Company
Pearce Brinkley Cease + Lee PA,
Thomas A. Trowbridge
Georgia/Carolinas PCI
H. Clymer Cease, Jr.
Constantine N. Vrettos
Eugene R. Montezinos
Red Hat Inc., C. David Burney
Riley Contracting Group
Eric Robinson
For information on how to join the Design
Guild, please contact the Office of External
Relations at 919-515-8313.
Skinner, Lamm & Highsmith, PA
E.P. Aretakis
Partner ($1,000-$2,499)
Small Kane Architects PA
Douglas M. Bennett
AV Metro, Inc.,
Macon S. Smith
Clement & Wynn Program
Frank D. Thompson
The Smith Sinnett Associates
BMS Architects, PC,
John and Patricia M. Tector
Paul H. Falkenbury
Michael S. Cole, ASLA, ColeJenest & Stone PA,
President
Herbert McKim, Sr.
David W. Tobias
Stephanie C. Garner
Charles H. Boney, Jr.
Michael A. Weeks
Hatcher Design Group, Inc.
Charles H. Boney, Jr., AIA, LS3P/Boney
Joseph M. Bryan, Jr.
Barbara Wiedemann
Dottie M. Haynes
C. David Burney, AIGA, Red Hat
Louis W. Cherry
Douglas D. Westmoreland
William B. Hood
ColeJenest & Stone PA,
WGM Design Inc.,
Nathan C. Isley
Jova/Daniels/Busby
Design Guild Board of Directors
H. Clymer Cease, Jr., AIA, Pearce Brinkley
Cease + Lee PA
Turan Duda, AIA, Duda/Paine Architects, LLP
Michael S. Cole
W.G. “Bill” Monroe III
Croxton Collaborative
Managers Inc
W.C. McIntire IV
Architects PC
Associate ($500-$999)
Julie McLaurin
Kevin Deabler
Carla C. Abramczyk
Ruby McSwain
Craig McDuffie, McDuffie Design
Dixon Weinstein Architects PA
Harry Bates
Linda Perry Meeks
W.G. “Bill” Monroe III, AIA, WGM Design Inc.
Duda/Paine Architects LLP,
L. Franklin Bost
Alwyn H. Phillips III
Monty Montague, IDSA, BOLT
Turan Duda
Gantt Huberman Architects
O. Earl Pope, Jr.
Mack Paul, Kennedy Covington
The Freelon Group Inc.,
Landis Inc., Barrett L. Kays
Theresa J. Rosenberg
Karen Ireland Koestner
Bruce H. Schafer
Hite Associates PC
John and Tracey Martin
Martha Scotford
Philip G. Freelon, FAIA, The Freelon Group Inc.
Frank D. Thompson, AV Metro, Inc.
Ralph Thompson, Empire Properties
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Individual ($250-$499)
Philip G. Freelon
Thomas S. Kenan III
Monty Montague, BOLT
James W. M. Smith
Frank J. Werner, Adams Products Company
The LSV Partnership PA
Mara E. Murdoch
George W. Stowe III
Barbara Wiedemann, UNC Chapel Hill
Marvin J. and Cindy Malecha
Katherine N. Peele
Trout & Riggs Construction
Joey Jenkins
Computing Consultant,
Information Technology Laboratory
Angelo Abbate
Professor Emeritus of Landscape
Architecture
Pamela Christie-Tabron
Administrative Secretary,
Graduate Studies
Carla Abramczyk
Director of Development,
External Relations
Roger H. Clark
Professor of Architecture
Delsey Avery
Administrative Assistant,
Research and Extension
Kermit Bailey
Associate Professor of Graphic Design
Dr. Donald A. Barnes
Professor Emeritus of Architecture
Thomas Barrie
Director, School of Architecture
Armand V. Cooke
Professor Emeritus of Industrial Design
Dr. Nilda Cosco
Coordinator, Inclusive Design Initiative
Director, Center for Universal Design
Chandra Cox
Chair, Art + Design Department
Associate Professor of Art + Design
Denise Gonzales Crisp
Dana Bartelt
Director, Prague Institute
Meredith Davis
Director, PhD Program
Professor of Graphic Design
Peter Batchelor
Jim Dean
Manager, Materials Technology Labs
Bill Bayley
Director of Information Technology
Laboratory
Karen E. DeWitt
Head, Harrye B. Lyons Design Library
Georgia Bizios
Director, Home Environments Design
Initiative
Kofi Boone
Assistant Professor of Landscape
Architecture
Susan Brandeis
Professor of Art + Design
Barbara Brenny
Visual Resources Librarian,
Harrye B. Lyons Design Library
Gene Bressler
Chair, Department of Landscape
Architecture
Professor of Landscape Architecture
Leslie Brock
Administrative Secretary, Landscape
Architecture and International Programs
Tony Brock
Assistant Professor of Graphic Design
Dr. Anita R. Brown-Graham
Director, Institute for Emerging Issues
Tim Buie
Assistant Professor of Industrial Design
Lee Cherry
Manager, Advanced Media Lab
Lope Max Díaz
Ed Driggers
Accounting Technician
Richard Duncan
Coordinator of Training in Universal
Design, Research and Extension
Cheryl Eatmon
Industrial Design and Graphic Design
Jeremy Ficca
Assistant Professor of Architecture
Patrick FitzGerald
Vincent M. Foote
Professor Emeritus of Industrial Design
Amy Frisz
Career Counselor, External Relations
Frank Harmon
Associate Professor of Architecture
Dottie Haynes
Assistant Dean for Administration
Nancy Hitchcock
Information Specialist in Universal
Design, Research and Extension
Percy Hooper
Associate Professor of Industrial Design
Bong-il Jin
Dr. Sharon Joines
Assistant Professor of Industrial Design
Chris Jordan
Director of Materials Laboratory and
Facilities
Charles Joyner
Haig Khachatoorian
Professor of Industrial Design
Bryan Laffitte
Chair, Industrial Design Department
Jack Lancaster
Technician, Materials Laboratory
Glenn E. Lewis
Professor of Industrial Design
Jean Marie Livaudais
Director of Professional Relations,
External Relations
Austin Lowrey
Professor Emeritus of Graphic Design
Fernando Magallanes
Associate Professor of Landscape
Architecture
Marvin J. Malecha
Dean
Robert Massengale
Research Assistant, Natural Learning
Initiative
Joe McCoy
Coordinator of Network & Hardware
Services, Information Technology
Laboratory
Claude E. McKinney
Professor Emeritus, Design
Lee-Anne Milburn
Assistant Professor of Landscape
Architecture
Jannette Mina
Library Technical Assistant,
Robin C. Moore
Director, Natural Learning Initiative
Marva Motley
Assistant Dean for Student Affairs
Sherry O’Neal
Director of Communications,
External Relations
Dr. Celen Pasalar
Extension Planning Specialist
Director, Downtown Design Studio
Dr. Michael Pause
Director, Design Fundamentals Program
Santiago Piedrafita
Chair, Graphic Design Department
Dr. Robert E. Stipe
Architecture
Sandi Sullivan
Architecture
Wayne Taylor
Professor Emeritus of Art + Design
Dr. J. Wayne Place
Dr. John O. Tector
Associate Dean for Undergraduate
Studies and Academic Support
Vita Plume
Assistant Professor of Art + Design
Will Temple
Assistant Professor of Graphic Design
J. Patrick Rand
Dr. Paul Tesar
Dr. Cymbre Raub
James D. Tomlinson
Assistant Dean for Research and
Extension
Dana Raymond
Wendy Redfield
Associate Director, School of Architecture
Assistant Professor of Architecture
Arthur R. Rice
Associate Dean for Graduate Studies,
Holly Richards
Student Services Assistant
Susan Toplikar
Scott Townsend
Hazel Tudor
Registrar
Shirley Varela
Research Assistant, Natural Learning
Initiative
Dr. Fatih Rifki
Katie Wakeford
Research Assistant,
Home Environments Design Initiative
Jackie Robertson
Academic Affairs
Ti-Yuan Wang
Technology Support Technician,
Information Technology Laboratory
Michael Rodrigues
Budget Manager
Nicole Welch
Education Curator, Contemporary Art
Museum
Henry Sanoff
Professor Emeritus of Architecture
Dr. Kristen Schaffer
Martha Scotford
Director, International Programs
Professor of Graphic Design
Julie Sherk
Research Associate, Natural Learning
Initiative
Carla Skuce
Executive Assistant to the Dean
Sharon Silcox
Library Assistant,
Renee Speller
Administrative Secretary, Art + Design
Pam Welch
External Relations
Anne Wessing
Architecture
Richard R. Wilkinson
Architecture
Stephanie Witchger
Library Technical Assistant,
Janice Wong
Accounting Technician
Leslie Young
Coordinator of Universal Design Services,

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